Justin Tadlock

By Justin Tadlock What can be said that has not already been said about A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin’s opening volume of his A Song of Fire and Ice epic? The books and the television series that it has spawned have permeated American pop culture. At least half the people I know have […]

By Justin Tadlock Yet another weekend has gone by where I didn’t get into my tidying journey quite like I wanted to. I spent most of the weekend outdoors, getting ready for the spring season. At the end of last week, I started working on a new and improved chicken run. Over the weekend, I […]

By Justin Tadlock I took the weekend off from fully following Marie Kondō’s advice on my tidying journey. I was struggling picking the right category of things to give the full KonMari treatment, but I knew I had a whole lot of junk that spanned multiple categories that just needed to be tossed. I filled […]

By Justin Tadlock My feelings about The Well of Ascension, the second book in Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy, were hard to pin down. The vast majority of the book is a solid 4-star read. But, the final few chapters are as good as it gets in fiction. During most of the novel, I was wondering […]

By Justin Tadlock Theme authors dont need new advanced starter themes. The most common issues in themes submitted to http://wordpress.org are still the basics: licensing, escaping, translations, and including script and styles. Encourage themers to learn the basics first. Otherwise they will not understand the code they are including in their themes. If you are […]

By Justin Tadlock I got the opportunity to spend a few days playing around with the Modula Image Gallery plugin for WordPress, created by the team at Macho Themes. Over the past week, I’ve tested it against several themes and the results have been good. It’s easy to see why the plugin has garnered an […]

By Justin Tadlock Exciting stuff. Buckets and electronics cables. Right? With Marie Kondō as my tidying angel, I had major plans for the weekend’s organizational sprint toward the glory of having a perfectly tidy home. But, my body had other plans. I came down with a bit of sickness. It was nothing major—just enough to […]

By Justin Tadlock There’s no need to let your family know the details of what you throw out or donate. I especially recommend that clients avoid showing their parents. I broke one of Marie Kondō’s rules. Now, I’m realizing why such a rule is so important. My parents have been on board with my tidying […]

By Justin Tadlock Want to plan, draft, and revise a novel in five days? That’s exactly what Scott King did. And, he outlined his journey in The Five Day Novel. Over the years, I’ve grown a small collection of writing books. Not many. Just enough to remind myself that I need to keep plugging away […]

By Justin Tadlock A couple of weeks ago, I sorted several hundred books following Marie Kondō’s system for tidying. It was my first big collection of material items that needed a serious KonMari makeover. While it was tough in some ways, it was a downright breeze in comparison to this weekend’s challenge: DVDs, Blu ray […]

By Justin Tadlock “You thinking about home already, lad, and you just set out in the world? The world will put a hook in your mouth. You’ll set off chasing the sunset, you wait and see…and if you ever go back, your village’ll no be big enough to hold you.” This is one of my […]

By Justin Tadlock I had an entire tote of papers, notebooks, and folders from college filled to the brim. Not one of those tiny totes. It was the kind that’d break your back attempting to move it. For the life of me, I could not think of a single reason to hold onto my old […]

By Justin Tadlock Over the years, I’ve purchased an untold number of calendars, planners, and other things that are supposed to help me better organize my work, school, and life. I’d walk into a bookshop or office supply store, browse their offerings for an hour or so, maybe pick up a new pen, and walk […]

By Justin Tadlock It’s been three months since I made the switch from WordPress to a custom system for my blog. This was one of the toughest and scariest changes I’ve made in the 15+ years I’ve been running this site. What if I break things? What if I’ve wasted all this time for nothing? […]